Hi Darian,
dap @ darianpatrick . com wrote:
> I was under the impression that when using
>
> use PAR {repository => "$Bin/../par/repo"};
>
> the coderef used to make PAR work was placed at the front of @INC, taking
> precedence over modules on the filesystem. Apparently this is a mistaken
> assumption. I'm getting the following error:
[...]
> Do I need to be doing something more to make modules from my PAR repo take
> precedence over modules installed on the filesystem?
You're right, that assumption is wrong. That is, however, not at all
your fault. I think the documentation isn't clear about this. If you
load a .par file with "use PAR....", it will be added to the front of
INC by default (cf. the fallback option to make it go to the end). If
you use a repository, it will be placed at the end of INC because it's
assumed that using the repository is a lot slower than anything local.
Now, there's currently no (simple and forward-compatible) way to do a
"use PAR {repository =>...}" and have it be preferred over the local
modules. There should be a way, of course. PAR 0.992 is on its way to
CPAN. When it arrives on your mirror in a couple of hours, you can do
this by explicitly setting "fallback => 0" when loading a repository.
Best regards,
Steffen
